I am the author of seventeen books, which are as follows, from most recent downwards:
The Alienation Effect – How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century, Penguin, 2025
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects, Repeater, 2024. Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards, 2024
Transitional Objects – Photographs of Poland, the modernist, 2023
Artificial Islands, Repeater, 2022. Winner of both Best Book and Best Monograph, Architectural Book Awards, 2023
Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer, Penguin, 2022
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, Verso, 2021
Red Metropolis, Repeater 2020. Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award, 2021
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, Repeater, 2018
Trans-Europe Express, Penguin, 2018 (translations: Italian, Chinese)
The Chaplin Machine, Pluto Press, 2016 (translation: Croatian)
The Ministry of Nostalgia, Verso 2016 (translation: Japanese)
Landscapes of Communism, Penguin, 2015 (translation: Spanish. Published in the US by The New Press)
A New Kind of Bleak, Verso, 2012
Across the Plaza, Strelka, 2012 (translation: Russian)
Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp, Zer0, 2011 (translation: German)
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso, 2010. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2011
Militant Modernism, Zer0, 2009 (translations: Czech, Russian, Turkish)
There are also several other books I have worked on, which are as follows.
- Collections of my work:
Ukrainian Postcards, a fundraising ebook with all proceeds going to Artists at Risk and the CWU Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine, Repeater, 2022
Baltijas Atklātnes, Orbita, 2021 (in Latvian translation)
- Books edited by me:
The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs, Open City, 2020
Nairn’s Towns, Notting Hill Editions, 2013
- Collaborations with others:
Ukrainian Modernism, archival pictures and introduction, for Dmytro Soloviov, Fuel, 2025
Roman Britain Summer, a pamphlet, with Carla Whalen, 2024
Soviet Metro Stations, with photographer Christopher Herwig, Fuel, 2019
Brutalust – Celebrating Post-War Southampton, catalogue for photography exhibition at K6 Gallery, 2016
Broadmead, pamphlet accompanying Stanley Donwood’s film of the same name, Department of Small Works, 2016
- Some maps for which I planned routes and wrote texts:
South Bank Emigre Art, a map and walking guide for Open City’s Pocket London, 2024
Zaha Hadid, a map and walking guide for Open City’s Pocket London, 2023
Thamesmead, a map and walking guide for Open City’s Pocket London, 2021
Owen Hatherley 